中国继石器、陶器时代之后,进入了青铜器时代。大约公元3700年前,当世界上许多民族正处在野蛮时期,我国即出现了殷商文明。这一文明的标志是灿烂的青铜文化。我国的冶铜技术在原始社会后期已经发明,经过劳动人民长期实践,到商朝达到新的水平,已经能够铸造质地坚硬、色泽光鲜和花纹绚丽的青铜器。主要器物有蒸煮食物用的鼎、鬲,温酒用的盉,盛酒用的尊、斝、爵、罍、觚等。到商代后期,青铜器铸造出现了高峰,器物增多了,出现了较大的铜器,如牛鼎、鹿鼎都有三四百公斤重,著名的司母戊鼎重达875公斤。西周青铜器冶铸,在继续商代成就的基础上,又有 China following the stone, pottery era, entered the era of bronze. About 3700 BC, when many of the nations of the world were in the brutal period, there was a civilization of Shang merchants in our country. The symbol of this civilization is brilliant bronze culture. China’s copper metallurgy technology has been invented in the later period of the primitive society. After working people’s long-term practice and reaching a new level in Shang Dynasty, they have been able to cast bronze ware with hard texture, bright color and beautiful patterns. The main artifacts of cooking food with tripod, 鬲, warm wine with 盉, Sheng wine with respect, 斝, Jazz, 罍, 觚 and so on. To the late Shang Dynasty, there was a peak of bronze casting, artifacts increased, there was a large bronze, such as Niu Ding, Lu Ding has three hundred four hundred kilograms of weight, the famous Secretary Wu Ding weight of 875 kilograms. Western Zhou bronze smelting, on the basis of the achievements of the Shang Dynasty, there are